@ActionAidUK If identity trumps sex will part of your work going forward be to train females to identify as male to avoid such abuse?
— Fiery Godmother (@fiery_godmother) July 19, 2020
.@ActionAidUK
25 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: ODA, overseas aid, political correctness, regressive left, useful idiots
Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape channels P.T. Bauer
07 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ODA, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, unintended consequences
Lessons from Africa
04 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption, economics of colonialism, ODA
Acemoglu and Robinson on the futility of foreign aid from Why Nations Fail
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ODA, The fatal conceit
.@oxfam is overfunded. Prioritises recycling over refugee relief @oxfamnz
18 Mar 2018 1 Comment
in defence economics, development economics, environmental economics, growth disasters Tags: NGOs, ODA, recycling
10 Charities That Made Things Worse
11 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, Public Choice Tags: ODA
.@linda_polman on aid in war zones @OxfamNZ @TaxpayersUnion
21 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: ODA
Polman observed the ‘crisis caravan’ of aid organizations in post-war situations. In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide millions of people fled to neighbouring DR Congo. “The entire extremist Hutu government and army settled in those refugee camps … A lot of money went into the Hutu extremist movement who used it to gain strength and continue their genocidal struggle”.
Still more evidence of mass kidnappings of @Oxfam activists
09 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, ODA, The Great Escape
The only charitable explanation for ODA activists not dancing in the streets to celebrate the success of capitalism in abolishing extreme poverty is mass kidnappings. Their forcible detention is the only thing stopping them celebrating, I am sure.
#TPPANoWay @oxfamNZ @GreenpeaceUSA The Effects of Globalization
07 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, Marxist economics Tags: customs unions, expressive voting, free trade, Leftover Left, ODA, preferential trading agreements, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, TPA, TPPA, Twitter left, Tyler Cowen
Does a country with a bullet train need ODA?
30 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: India, ODA, overseas aid
62 billionaires alert: extreme poverty could have fallen so much faster?
24 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, extreme poverty, global poverty, Leftover Left, ODA, overseas aid, rational irrationality, superstars, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Are @JulieAnneGenter @BjornLomborg attending the same #COP21
10 Dec 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate aid, climate alarmism, expressive voting, green rent seeking, New Zealand Greens, ODA, overseas development assistance
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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